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Conservative Candidates Should Be "Electable"
Having titled the article, let me say I would love to see O'Donnell win and surprise all the pundits. But I respect Krauthammer.
Bill Buckley - no Mike Castle he - had a rule: Support the most conservative candidate who is electable.
There's something to be said for that. Note the takeover by the left has spanned years and years, and when they over-reached, we got Obama. Gain a little at each election, rather than lose it all until next election.

On the other hand, Krauthammer notes -
This is no ordinary time. And this is no ordinary Democratic administration. It is highly ideological and ambitious. It is determined to use whatever historical window it is granted to change the country structurally, irreversibly. It has already done so with Obamacare and has equally lofty ambitions for energy, education, immigration, taxation, industrial policy and the composition of the Supreme Court.
Mr Krauthammer is correct, it is no ordinary time. But the first vote an electable Mr. Castle would have made was the vote to make a Pub the Majority Leader instead of Mr. Reid (or Mr. Schumer). If the Pubs fall a vote short, we'll lament Delaware. Maybe.

Posted by: Bobby 2010-09-18
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=305872